2012
DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2012.694040
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The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction

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“…There is silence surrounding the instrumental role that international organisations, including EU institutions, have played in Tunisian and Egyptian economic and political reforms to link their economies to international economic processes (Pace and Cavatorta, 2012;Zemni and Bogaert, 2011). Twinning seemingly presumes no connection between the domestic and global networks of aid, investment and business that have supported neoliberal structures in Tunisia and Egypt.…”
Section: Envisaging Change Through Development Capacitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…There is silence surrounding the instrumental role that international organisations, including EU institutions, have played in Tunisian and Egyptian economic and political reforms to link their economies to international economic processes (Pace and Cavatorta, 2012;Zemni and Bogaert, 2011). Twinning seemingly presumes no connection between the domestic and global networks of aid, investment and business that have supported neoliberal structures in Tunisia and Egypt.…”
Section: Envisaging Change Through Development Capacitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The focus of Twinning on the local implies that change in Tunisia and Egypt has no structural conditions of possibility and needs to be entirely pursued at the local level. The emphasis on development capacity, however, leaves untouched the three decades of (neo)liberal economic reforms implemented by Tunisian and Egyptian governments since the 1980s (Bergh, 2012;Pace and Cavatorta, 2012). The construction of reality around local capacities inevitably distances attention from the national market liberalisation and privatisation policies in these two countries that have generated mass poverty and uneven economic growth, worsened income inequalities and urban disparities, exacerbated unemployment, social exclusion and marginalisation, deepened rural underdevelopment, and widened local, national and regional asymmetries (Cavatorta and Haugbølle, 2012;Ismail, 2011;Volpi, 2013).…”
Section: Envisaging Change Through Development Capacitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…También habrían tenido gran peso los cambios en la sociedad civil, con una población dotada de un mayor nivel educativo y de acceso a las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación que la pondrían en contacto con otras corrientes de pensamiento, facilitando además su movilización. Precisamente, este factor, junto con las escasas expectativas profesionales para una mano de obra en rápido crecimiento, sería determinante a la hora de comprender el papel protagonista que en las revueltas habría desempeñado la juventud, la cual mostraría un grado de descontento ante el autoritarismo más elevado que el resto de la sociedad, lo que la habría impulsado a una movilización que habría alcanzado un gran éxito gracias al empleo de las nuevas tecnologías y al carácter no partidista de los movimientos, siendo capaz de unir a personas de ideologías muy diversas (Pace y Cavatorta, 2013). Por último, estos académicos consideran que el Islam no constituye un obstáculo para la democratización, y que ésta no requeriría un laicismo radical, sino que son posibles los modelos que permitan garantizar a la religión un papel en la esfera pública sin por ello minar el carácter democrático del Estado (Stepan y Linz, 2013).…”
Section: Revoluciones áRabes Y Sistema Político Libanésunclassified
“…Egypt achieved a political revolution by way of mass protests and demonstrations (Housden, 2013;Pace and Cavatorta, 2012), while Libya saw armed conflict (Brahimi, 2011) and a political revolution. Common causes of unrest in both Egypt and Libya were believed to be a lack of economic freedom, political rights as well as a sense of social injustice (Campante and Davin, 2012).…”
Section: Unveiling the Silhouette Behind The Arab Spring: A Spark Of mentioning
confidence: 99%